Joe Wilder Musical artist

Joseph Benjamin Wilder (February 22, 1922 – May 9, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Wilder was awarded the Temple University Jazz Master's Hall of Fame Award in 2006. The National Endowment for the Arts honored him with its highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters Award for 2008.

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Joe Wilder
Birth dateFebruary 22, 1922
Birth place
Colwyn Pennsylvania , United States

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Musical artist

Career started1940
associated musical artist
Benny Goodman
Billie Holiday
Dizzy Gillespie
Harry Belafonte
Lionel Hampton
Benny Carter
Lena Horne
Tony Bennett
Johnny Mathis
BackgroundNon vocal instrumentalist
genre
Jazz
Swing music
instrument
Flugelhorn
Trumpet
record label
Savoy Records
Columbia Records

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